Hat-pin.



G. CLEVELAND.

HAT PIN.

APPLICATION FILED JAILZS, 1914.

1,1 30,796. Patented Mar. 9, 1915.

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CLEMENT CLEVELAND, OF NEW YORK, Y.

HAT-PIN.

Specification of Letters iatent.

Application 131611 January 23, 1914. Serial No. 813,870.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLEMENT CLEVELAND, a citizen of the United States,residing in New York city, in the county of New York and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat- Pins, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to combinable, or duplex, hat-pins, and aprincipal object of the invention is to provide a composite or duplexhat-pin having an improved construction whereby it will be adapted foruse as a single pin, or as a pair of separate pins, and also as a safetydevice.

My present invention is in part in the nature of an improvement on theduplex hat pin described in my co-pending application, Serial No.762,181, filed April 19, 1913, which has matured into Patent No.1,118,473, issued Nov. 24, 1914, to which reference may be had.

In the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, Figure lis a side view, with the tubular pin shown in section, of the duplex hatpin, and shows the two pins assembled as when in use as a combined andsafety hat pin. Fig. 2 is a View similar to the left-hand portion ofFig. l, for illustrating the manner of assembling the two oombinablepins for the purpose of inserting them into a hat by using them as if asingle pin. Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view in line N, N, Fig. 1,and shows the parts at the left-hand of said line, as seen from a pointat the right-hand thereof. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail view of thepoint-end of the tubular pin, in the position shown in Fig. 1, and Fig.5 is a similar detail view showing said point-end as seen from below inFig. 4.

Similar characters designate like parts in all of the views.

One of the pair of combinable pins is indicated by B, and consists of asmall tube which, in practice, may be made extremely thin and ispreferably made of some kind of hard-drawn or tempered metal. Inpractice the tubes for the pins B may be made of steel of suitabletemper. To facilitate the illustration of the improvement I have shownthe pins somewhat modified from the more usual proportions.

In Fig. 1 the tubular pin B is shown as having some suitable kind ofhead, as H, fixed to one end thereof, while the other Patented Mar.9,1915.

end 2 is provided with a fabric-puncturing point of improvedconstruction for operatmg in connection with the central pin C, which isalso provided with some suitable head, as (Z. I

By reason of its small diameter, the pin C willbe sufficiently flexibleso that. it may be readily inserted through some suitable branch-wayopening, as 6, arranged in any convenient'manner for permitting thecentral pin to be assembled, in the direction indicated in Fig. 2, withthe tubular pin B without entering the bore of the tube B close to the.head thereof. By this means a point-receptacle, as at P, Figs. 1,2 and3, is reserved and separated from the path of entrance of the pin C, forthe purpose of receiving the point 4 of the pin (J when this isassembled with the pin B in the reversed direction shown in Fig. 1, atwhich time the point 4 of the pin C is inclosed and protected within thepoint-receptacle P and is prevented, by the head H acting as a stoptherefor, from being pushed outwardly so as to become uncovered.

When the two pins are assembled in a manner indicated in Fig. 2, theybecome practically a single pin and may then be inserted through thehat, (as K, Fig. 1), after which the central pin may be withdrawn andre-inserted from the point end of the pin B, as shown in Fig. 1, so thatwhen thus combined each ofthe two pins has a head, and thus reverselycombined, have a head at each end thereof, while the point 4 of the pinB is safely inclosed within the pointreceptacle P adjacent to the headH, as more fully explained in my said patent.

A convenient way of arranging the branch-way entrance is indicated inFigs. 1, 2 and 3 as consisting of the hole 6 formed through the head Hand in one side of the tubular pin B, which may be laterally enlarged atthe head-end, as illustrated in said views, for that purpose. When thisarrangement is used and on. account of the considerable difference inthe external diameters of the two'pins, it is evident the hole 6 may beonly large enough to allow the free entrance of the small pin C,especially as this central pin will usually have a considerable degreeof flexibility. Thus the tubular pin has near the head-end thereof anentranceway for an insertible central pin, and has this entrance-waybranching from one side of the tube, for thereby forming in the tube a:

' reserved portion serving as a point-receptacle,

' bore of the tube B, and adjacent to the branch-way entrance 6, so thatwhen a central pin, as C (which is longerthanthe tubular pin), isinserted from the point-end 2 of the tubular pin, the point, as i, ofsuch central pin'will be stopped by the said pointstop. r r 7 lhe tubeof the tubular pinyB is shown with one side thereo-f,-see Figs. 1, i and5, extended into an elongated and resilient fabric-puncturing point,12,'theapex e of which is shown set inwardly (from and relatively to theline,as '2', F ig. i,,of the tubewall), for bringing the apex einitially in line with,or partly forward of,the bore of the tube. Bythis means, the apex, or extreme point e of the tubular pin, is readilymade to contact properly with a central inserted pin, as (J, even whensuch inserted- 1. pin is considerably smaller than the bore of thetubular pin. In this connection it will beunderstood that in practice,it is not feasible'to manufacture the pin tubes without any variationwhatever in size of bore, nor to make the central pins precisely roundin section nor exactly of the same diameter, nor to make or keep themperfectly straight. In my present improvements, however, the normallyinjurious effects of such variations are avoided,-since a considerabledifference in the size of the .central pin, C, as compared with thebore, 7, is compensated for by the inward settingof the point 12,whereby the apex e thereofis normally-tensioned against Copies of thispatent may be obtained for vthe central pin, even when this variesconsiderably in diameter.

By the means here set forth, the apex of the tube-point is initially soplaced and related to the tube and the insertible pin, as

to avoid the forming between those parts of any space or crevice, andthus I overcome the normal; tendency which. would otherwise exist forthe fiber of a hatfabric my invention, I

than the tubular pin when such central pin is inserted within thetubular pin from either direction.

2. A duplex hat-pin comprising a tubular pin having a head, said headforming a point stop in line with the bore of the tube,

and an adjacent branch-way entrance in said head for a central pin. 7

3. A duplex hat-pin comprising a tubular pin having a central bore, saidcentral bore being enlarged at the head end of said pin, j

a point stop in line with. the bore of the tube at the head end, therebeing an entrance eccentric of said bore in said enlargement for acentral pin. I I

- CLEMENT CLEVELAND. WVitnesses:

CHARLES R. S'roUeH'roN, .SILACE L. BURNETT.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, iWashington, I). C. j i I

